The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-09-02
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources
Personal AND POLITICAL.

tion of one Of his feet.
THE Russian Prince Pierre Wittgenstein
died at Denlon, near Brest, of grief for
his wife, the daughter of a Breton fisher
man, whom he had educated. He leaves
his vast fortune to Princess Hohenlohe.
JUDGE KUMLER, of the Cincinnati Court
of Common Pleas, has granted a manda-
mus on the application of the Union
Labor party, directing the Board of EIec-
tions to hereafter recognize the Union
Labor party in making appointments of
clerks, registrars and judges of election.
In answer TO an inquiry from the col
lector Of customs at Louisville, KY, the
Secretary of the Treasury informed him
that duty must be collected upon the actual
quantity of reimpOTted American whisky
returned as ascertaiued by regauging at
the port Of importation, and that the
practice of assessing duty upon the guam
tity originally exported is erroneous.
QUEEN VICTORIA has conferred upon
Princess Louise, wife of the Marquis of
Lorne, and Princess Victoria Of Wales, the
order of the Crown of India.
THE Sultan Of Turkey refuses to allow
Prince Ferdinand to visit COnstantinople
as the ruler Of Bulgaria.
THE Gladstonian members Of Parliament
are preparing for a determined fight in the
Commons over the governments prOcla-
nation of the Irish National League.
On the 24th Mrs. Cleveland returned to
Washington.
ARCHIBALD FORBES, the wcll-known war
correspondent, who was to lecture in this
country next fall, has cabled his manager,
J. B. Pond, that his health is wrecked
and that all of his engagements must be
cancelled.
SECRETARY LAMAR viii accompany the
President on his Western and Southern
tour, but for weighty reasons Secretary
Bayard viii remain at Washington.
OK the oath Henry S. Ives was on the
stand in the reference case before Judge
Noah Davis, at New York, but proved an
uncOmmunicativew witness.
ON the path tho following State politi-
cal conventions were held: Iowa Repub-
licans at Des Moiues, Maryland Repub-
licans at Baltimore and Pennsylvania
ProhibitiOnists at Harrisburg.
EMPEROR WILLIAM of Germany was we'll
enough on the 2ith TO take a drive. He
also Witnessed the annual contests of the
officers Of the First Guards.
On the night of the 23d, John Andersen,
IA bartender in Billy Thompson's restau-
rant at Gloucester, n. J., received word
that by the death Of his mother in Copen-
hagen he is heir to $500, 900.
GOVERNOR BARTLETT Of California was
still living on the night of the 2ith, but
there was no hope Of his recovery.
GENERAL JOHN C. BLACK, Commissioner
of Pensions, is reported to he quite i'll with
infammatorv rheumatism at the residence
of Hon. Stilson Hutchins, at Weir. n. II.
He is there as the guest of the New Hamp-
shire veterans. Three physicians have
been in attendance.
IT is reported from London that John
Ruskin is insane
PEOPLE in Indiana are subscribing lib
orally to the Hendricks monument fund.
THE Porte refuses assent to Russia's new
Bulgarian scheme.
A RUMoRED Cabinet change in prospect
at Washington is General Villas for the
Interior Department aud General A. E.
Stevenson for Postmaster-General.
on the 25th Mr.. Gladstone, in the House
of Commons, vigorously opposed the proc
lamation Of the Irish National League.
SECRETARY ENDGCoTT ON the 2Jth made
requisition on the Civil-Service Commits
sion for 2I2 names, from which to select
ffty-three for positions left vacant by
promotions.
by the order Of William O'Brien to an
swer in the courts FOR sedition under the
new Irish Crimes act, the British Govern
ment is brought face to face with the ques-
tion of enforcing coercion in Ireland, and
every body in England is awaiting with in
tense interest the result.
PRINCE FERDINAND is very much de-
pressed in consequence of the isolation in
which he finds himself at home and
abroad.
ON the 25th Mr.. Lainfesta, the new
Minister from Guatemala, was presented
TO President Cleveland by Secretary
Baynrd.
on the 25th Hon. George V. N. Lothrop,
United States Minister TO Russia, passed
through Geneva, on his way to the United
States by way Of Paris. 1t is said that
upon his arrival here he might tender his
resignation.
TIE President and Mrs. Cleveland in
tend to remain most of the time at the
White House now, and have practically
abandoned their country home for the rest
of this season. Mrs. Folsom will continue
to preside as mistress at Red Top, in
which duty she expects TO be assisted by
several friends from Buffalo.
REV. EDWARD II. DOANE, the American
missionary who was imprisoned on the
Caroline Islands, has been released.
SENATOR RDDLEBERGER has made a
statement explaining his recent trouble
with the court at Woodstock, Va.
-VIscoUNT DoNEaAILAE's death from hy-
<dr5phobia has shaken the faith of many
in the efficacy Of Pasteur's plan of treating
rabies.
ALEXANDER MCCUE, Solicitor Of the
Treasury, has been appointed Commits
sioner of Fish and Fisheries, to succeed
Prof. Baird, deceased.
MIC president IOIIER OF tne y mon
Pacific railroad ntimates that the COM
pany would dispose of its coal mines in
Wyoming if a purchaser could be found at
a reasonable price.
RIGHT REV. r. w. b. ELLIOT, Bishop of
Western Texas. died at Sewanee, Tenn,
on the night of the 26th, after a protracted
illness.
MAYOR HEWITT Of New Yor, is de-
termined TO enforce the provisions of the
Il Il.
ure last winter. He has instructed the
corporation counsel to prosecute all hotel
keepers who failed to place rope long
enough 70 reach the ground in each room
Of the house.
Hon. Mr.. LARIvIERE, Provincial Secre.
tary and member of the Government Of
Manitoba, who is in Montreal, says that
the provincial government are determined
60 build the Red River Valley railway at
any cost and in spite of all opposition.
DOUGLAS F, CARLIy, chief clerk at the
Cheyenne agency, was married on the
26th to Maiden Duprest, the wealthiest
Indian heiress on the Sioux reservation.
Carlin is closely connected with prominent
army officers, and with the Carlins Of
Illinois. Over one thousand Indians wit
messed the ceremony, and the festivities
viii last three days.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
OK the 22d a frame building, owned and
occupied by Mrs Folsom as a grocery
store and dwelling, at Fort Hamilton, N.
V, was destroyed by fire. Loss about
$500. A pet monkey upset a lamp, caus-
ing the fire.
THE captain OF the Cleveland Base Ball
Club was arrested on the 22d for having
participated in a Sunday game Of base
ball he was released under 500 bail,
pending trial in the police court.
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